Club Hotel Kezmarok Poprad

... more traditional food like baked cabbage with meat.

A route which I especially recommend, and which I do more or less once every 2 years, is a trail to Chata pri Zelenom Plese (literally: a house next to a green lake). It takes about 3 hours to get there, and the walk is not too taxing even for a beginner. It's a peaceful place with a lake, a cosy hostel and the mountains. There are a few trails than ...

Posledna dedina pred Popradom, posledne stupanie, napriec Kozimy chrbtami. Vcelu svieze stupanie, no ked je clovek chory, totalna dorazka :( Valer melie z posledneho :( Kopcu niet konca kraja. Nakoniec vsak prichadzame k lomu, tu Valera pritlaci velka potreba. Je tam cca 40cm2 miesta ... ked sa musi, tak sa musi. Nastastie od lomu je kopec uz len chvilku, caka nas posledny zjazd a to az do Popradu, doslova takmer az na stanicu :)

... place is its proximity to the mountains and to a variety of things you can do if you are not particularly keen on hiking. It's close to the Morskie Oko lake, and the red colour trail to Rysy, the highest peak of Poland. It's close to the Dolina Pięciu Stawów Polskich, which is a valley of six lakes surrounded by the mountains. Last but not least, it's close to Slovakia, which is just 10 km away. It has a huge thermal swimming ...

... have much to offer, was to have a jumping-off point for the nearby karst caves. Given that the hotel we found was quite expensive and it took quite a bit of time to get here, it is hard to justify the trip. However, Domica, the cave we visited, was pretty stellar. Though no spelunker, I have visited perhaps a dozen caves in my day. There is no question that this one was the best even though the cave tour was in Slovak (save for a bit of German for German tourists. Sure, I wish ...

... for any horndogs reading this, i can't remember seeing one man on the dancefloor, the place was packed with honey. The next day we got a train into the Tatry mountains on the Polish border, the fresh air did the trick for the hangover...the place looked like something out of LOTR. Went to Bratislava the next day and met a few old friends...met their daugther who studies Irish dancing ...

... to operate in the first decade of the 20th century as the Tatran electric railway. Within the radius of 50 km from Poprad, there are four national parks, each one of a different character, four mineral springs, and four various caves. These natural wonders are even strengthened by a Gothic explosion in the Spis region, which during the Medieval times culminated in the extraordinary enhancement and it is epitomized by the town of Levoča, 25 km apart from Poprad, which has ...

... the small river alongside which we were supposed to be walking was nothing more than a stream, and the waterfalls mere trickles. At least the gentle, non-demanding paths allowed for a very surreal conversation, even if the park was slightly disappointing. I'll never look at penguins (or nuns) in the same way again! The following day, more than a little hungover, we made our way to Dobsinska L'adova Jaskyna, an ice cave a little deeper into the park. It ...

... another local bus out to a little Gypsy town (very run down) called Spisske Bdhradie to see a 17th century castle - Spissky Hrad. This castle is was once known as the romantic castle as it is ruins of a white castle up on a hill very picturesque and secluded I would imagine?!?! Didn't spend that long in Levoca as we headed off to Kosice the next day. A beautiful little town but not a lot to do. Kosice - 15/08/04 - 16 ...

I think it is often seen as a sign of weakness to tell you have a bad period during your holiday. It is just not allowed. I mean, you pay a lot of money for the trip, you reserve time for it, and then you're going to be unhappy. That's stupid! But to my opinion, dips belong to a journey. Just like they belong to normal life. I could skip them and mention the facts, for example, like this. "The High Tatra mountains offer superior views." Now the impression is not complete ...

I am lagging behind. I am still writing about day , but my journey is already a week old. This entry is written in an Internet cafe in Poprad. The keyboard is adjusted to Slovak, so you may encounter some very strange special effects reading this. For example, on the spot where you usually find the numbers, there are the specific letters of the Slovak alphabet. Also funny: the places of the y and the z are exchanged. July 28 In the afternoon, I visited Dev ...